Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is currently hosting "Art For The People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection." The exhibit features works created during the Great Depression of the 1930s ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers ...

The WPA Art Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a program created by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935 to boost employment and the purchasing power of cash-strapped Americans.

It was not the PWAP but its better-known successor, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that helped support the likes of young Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock before they became luminaries.

Seymour Fogel's 1938 “The Wealth of the Nation,” one of thousands of New Deal-era works owned by the General Services Administration, suggests a continuum of American productivity, from ...

It was during the depression, and almost every day Harlem’s WPA Art Center was crammed with artists and writers. “It was my education,” says Jacob Lawrence. “I met people like Saroyan ...

Art has a way of disappearing. Paintings are fragile, photographs fade, and even work made from durable stone and metal requires maintenance and care. But sometimes it just vanishes: off walls ...